Roe v. Wade

The pandemic has not dampened the optimism of a resurgent anti-abortion movement that sees a new Texas law banning most abortions as a sign of things to come.

Conventional wisdom and past research has held that abortion is a far more motivating issue for Republicans than Democrats. That may be changing.

The Supreme Court ruled that a strict Texas abortion law can remain in effect, but Texas abortion providers can sue over the ban.

California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature plan to make the state a “sanctuary” for those out-of-state seeking reproductive care if the U.S. Supreme Court reverse Roe v. Wade.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of the landmark Roe v

We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the United States in doubt and awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.

Sen. Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine, favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law, her office said Wednesday.

If the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn or weaken Roe v. Wade following Wednesday’s oral arguments on a Mississippi challenge to the nearly 50-year-old ruling, it is expected more than 20 states would move to either limit or ban abortion access. Vermont is not one of them. Instead, voters across the Green Mountain State will likely have...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority justices are signaling they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

Legislation passed by the House on Friday would guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

Both of Maine’s U.S. senators say they support Congress strengthening Roe v. Wade protections after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to block a restrictive Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The restriction also allows anyone in Texas to sue people who provide abortions, as well as people who help someone get receive...

The arguments are a direct challenge to the central finding of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and its 1992 decision in a Pennsylvania abortion case.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide a major abortion case that could dramatically alter decades of rulings on abortion rights and eventually lead to dramatic restrictions on abortion access

Ohio maternal fetal medicine specialist Dr. Michael Cackovic says Republican-backed laws banning abortions at what they term the “first detectable fetal heartbeat” defy science

Arkansas’ governor has signed into law legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state, but opponents plan to challenge the sweeping measure before it takes effect later this year

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett refused to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, about whether she would rule that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established the right to abortion, should be overturned. Barrett told Feinstein it would be wrong for her to “pre-commit” to a decision or join the court with...

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 newspaper ad sponsored by an anti-abortion group in which she said she opposed “abortion on demand” and defended “the right to life from fertilization to the end of natural life.”